''Rotten Apples'' (''The Smashing Pumpkins – Greatest Hits'' as titled on the album's cover) is a
greatest hits
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by
alternative rock
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band
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins (also referred to as simply Smashing Pumpkins) are an American alternative rock band from Chicago. Formed in 1988 by frontman and guitarist Billy Corgan, bassist D'arcy Wretzky, guitarist James Iha and drummer Jimmy Chamb ...
. In the US, it was released on November 20, 2001, along with a bonus disc titled ''
Judas O
''Rotten Apples'' (''The Smashing Pumpkins – Greatest Hits'' as titled on the album's cover) is a greatest hits compilation album by alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. In the US, it was released on November 20, 2001, along with a bo ...
''. The album's concluding track, "
Untitled
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Artworks
* ''Untitled (2004)'', by Banksy
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* ''Untitled'' (Devil), a 1982 painting by American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
* ''Untitled' ...
", was the Pumpkins' final recording before their breakup. Completed in the days leading up to the band's farewell concert at the Metro in
Chicago
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, it was also released as a single. Another notable track is "Real Love"; while previously released on ''
Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music
''Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music'' is the sixth studio album by the American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. It was released for free on the Internet on September 5, 2000. Plans for a standard physical release, bundl ...
'', this was taken from the factory master tapes and, as a result, lacks the pops and clicks inherent in all copies of ''Machina II'' (which is vinyl sourced).
The title of the album is the namesake of a B-side that was released on the "
Tonight, Tonight" single. Peaking at number 31 in the US,
the album sold 77,000 units in its first week of being released.
Release and reception
''Rotten Apples'' was released on November 20, 2001. According to Dan Tallis, writing for BBC, this album was "
rare pleasure these days, a collection of tracks that span a band's career that can actually justify the Greatest Hits title." Regarding the Judas O disc, Tallis wrote, "
e Judas O B-sides and rarities collection will satisfy Pumpkin obsessives with its outtakes from the Adore and Machina sessions, but it simply cannot compete with its sister CD. 'Here's to the Atom Bomb', 'Waiting' and 'Rock On', (yes, a cover of the David Essex classic - which also features lyrics from Van Halen songs) stand out from the others, which at worst slip into incoherent rock ramblings."
Track listing
There exists two versions of ''Rotten Apples''; one is exclusive to North America and includes the song "Landslide", which is replaced by "
Try, Try, Try
"Try, Try, Try" is a song by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. It was the third and final single from the band's fifth studio album, ''Machina/The Machines of God'', and was released on September 11, 2000. It was written by ...
" in the international version.
"Rhinoceros" is misprinted as "Rhinocerous" on the back cover and the disc. Also, the version on the compilation is the version off the ''
Lull EP'' where the last 30 seconds of the original recording (some guitar noise) is cut off.
The last half of "Drown" is also cut, getting rid of the extended guitar solo.
Personnel
The Smashing Pumpkins
*
Jimmy Chamberlin
James Joseph Chamberlin (born June 10, 1964) is an American drummer and record producer. He is best known as the drummer for the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. Following the 2000 breakup of the band, Chamberlin joined Pumpkins fro ...
– drums (except "Eye", "Ava Adore" and "Perfect")
*
Billy Corgan
William Patrick Corgan Jr. (born March 17, 1967) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and professional wrestling promoter. He is best known as the lead singer, primary songwriter, guitarist, and only permanent member of the rock band the ...
– Songwriting, vocals, guitar,
programming,
mixing,
production
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,
art direction
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the visi ...
, bass on "Untitled"
*
James Iha
(born March 26, 1968) is an American rock musician. He is best known as a guitarist and co-founder of the alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. He was a member until the initial breakup in 2000. Among his musical projects of recent years ...
– guitar
*
D'arcy Wretzky
D'arcy Elizabeth Wretzky-Brown (born May 1, 1968) is an American musician. She is the original bass player of the alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins and is credited on their first six studio albums. She left the band in 1999.
Biograph ...
– bass guitar (except "Untitled")
Additional musicians
*
Matt Walker – drums on "Ava Adore"
*
Joey Waronker
Jon Joseph Waronker (born May 20, 1969) is an American drummer and music producer. He is best known as a regular drummer of both Beck and R.E.M., and as member of the experimental rock bands Atoms for Peace and Ultraísta.
Background
Waronker w ...
– drums on "Perfect"
Technical staff
*Ted de Bono – production on "Landslide"
*
Bon Harris
Bon Harris (born Vaughan David Harris; 12 August 1965 in Chelmsford, Essex, England) is an English composer, producer, singer and songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is a founding member of the British EBM group Nitzer Ebb, programming Ni ...
– additional programming on "Ava Adore" and "Perfect"
*
Butch Vig
Bryan David "Butch" Vig (born August 2, 1955) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the drummer and co-producer of the alternative rock band Garbage and the producer of the diamond-selling Nirvana album ''Neve ...
– production on "Siva", "Rhinoceros", "Drown", "Cherub Rock", "Today", and "Disarm"
*
Flood
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– production and mixing on "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", "1979", "Zero", "Tonight, Tonight", "Perfect", "The Everlasting Gaze", "Stand Inside Your Love", "Real Love", "Untitled", and "Try, Try, Try"; additional production and mixing on "Ava Adore" and "Perfect"
*Roger Lian – digital editing
*
Alan Moulder
Alan Moulder (born 11 June 1959) is an English record producer, mixing engineer, and audio engineer.
Early life
Moulder was born on 11 June 1959 in Boston, Lincolnshire. He was educated at Boston Grammar School. He had an interest in music from ...
– production and mixing on "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", "1979", "Zero", and "Tonight, Tonight"; mixing on "The Everlasting Gaze", "Stand Inside Your Love" and "Real Love"
*Jennifer Quinn-Richardson – production coordination
*
Howie Weinberg
Howie Weinberg is an American audio mastering engineer with over 2,257 mastering credits, three TEC Awards, 21 Grammy Awards, two Juno Awards, and one Mercury Prize.
Career
Weinberg mastered Herbie Hancock's 1983 album ''Future Shock''. Other m ...
–
mastering
*
Brad Wood
Brad Wood is an American record producer located in Los Angeles. He has produced many albums, including Liz Phair's ''Exile in Guyville'' and Placebo's debut.
Career
Wood is from Rockford, Illinois, United States.
In 1988, Wood, along with ...
– additional production on "Ava Adore"
Art
*Danny Clinch – photography
*Lynne Fischer – photography
*Lisa Johnson – photography, cover photo
*David LaChapelle – photography
*Michael Lavine – photography
*
Melodie McDaniel
Melodie McDaniel (born 1967) is a Los Angeles, CA-based American still life, celebrity, and advertising photographer and film director.
Early life and background
Born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, McDaniel graduated in 1992 from Art Center Coll ...
– photography
*Greg Sylvester –
art direction
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games.
It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the visi ...
*
Yelena Yemchuk
Yelena Yemchuk ( Ukrainian: Єлена Ємчук, born April 22, 1970) is a Ukrainian photographer, painter and film director, best known for her work with The Smashing Pumpkins.
Early life
Born in Kyiv, Ukraine to an athlete and a teacher ...
– photography
Charts and certifications
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
''Judas O''
''Judas O'' (also known as ''Judas Ø'') is a collection of
B-side
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s and rarities by
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins (also referred to as simply Smashing Pumpkins) are an American alternative rock band from Chicago. Formed in 1988 by frontman and guitarist Billy Corgan, bassist D'arcy Wretzky, guitarist James Iha and drummer Jimmy Chamb ...
. Initially released as free downloadable tracks by the band, it was ultimately packaged as a bonus disc in a limited-edition printing of the greatest hits collection ''Rotten Apples''. The songs are from the ''
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' is the third studio album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released on October 24, 1995, in the United Kingdom and a day later in the United States on Virgin Records. Produced by ...
'', ''
Adore'', and ''
Machina/The Machines of God
''Machina/The Machines of God'' is the fifth studio album by the American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins, released on February 29, 2000, by Virgin Records. A concept album,Interview with Billy Corgan, May 24, 2000, KROQ-FM it marked t ...
'' recording sessions, and some tracks can be found on ''
The Aeroplane Flies High ''The Aeroplane Flies High'' is a five-disc box set released by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins in 1996. It contains expanded versions of the five singles from their album ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' and also inc ...
'', and ''
Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music
''Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music'' is the sixth studio album by the American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. It was released for free on the Internet on September 5, 2000. Plans for a standard physical release, bundl ...
''. ''Judas Ø'' is considered to be the sister album to ''
Pisces Iscariot
''Pisces Iscariot'' is a compilation album by American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins, released in 1994 through Virgin Records, consisting of B-sides and outtakes. Reaching number 4 in the US upon its 1994 release, ''Pisces Iscariot' ...
'', a collection of B-sides and rarities from the ''
Gish
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'' and ''
Siamese Dream
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'' era.
Track listing
All tracks written by
Billy Corgan
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, except for "Believe" written by
James Iha
(born March 26, 1968) is an American rock musician. He is best known as a guitarist and co-founder of the alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. He was a member until the initial breakup in 2000. Among his musical projects of recent years ...
and "Rock On" written by
David Essex
David Essex (born David Albert Cook; 23 July 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, and actor. Since the 1970s, he has attained 19 Top 40 singles in the UK (including two number ones) and 16 Top 40 albums. Internationally, Essex had the most ...
.
Personnel
The Smashing Pumpkins
*
Billy Corgan
William Patrick Corgan Jr. (born March 17, 1967) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and professional wrestling promoter. He is best known as the lead singer, primary songwriter, guitarist, and only permanent member of the rock band the ...
– songwriter, vocals, lead and rhythm guitar, piano, producer, art direction
*
D'arcy Wretzky
D'arcy Elizabeth Wretzky-Brown (born May 1, 1968) is an American musician. She is the original bass player of the alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins and is credited on their first six studio albums. She left the band in 1999.
Biograph ...
– bass guitar
*
Jimmy Chamberlin
James Joseph Chamberlin (born June 10, 1964) is an American drummer and record producer. He is best known as the drummer for the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. Following the 2000 breakup of the band, Chamberlin joined Pumpkins fro ...
– drums
*
James Iha
(born March 26, 1968) is an American rock musician. He is best known as a guitarist and co-founder of the alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. He was a member until the initial breakup in 2000. Among his musical projects of recent years ...
– lead and rhythm guitar, vocals, songwriter and producer on "Believe"
*
Melissa Auf der Maur
Melissa Gaboriau Auf der Maur (; born March 17, 1972) is a Canadian musician.
Auf der Maur began performing in 1993 after forming the indie rock band Tinker while she was a student at Concordia University. She was recruited as the bassist ...
– bass guitar on "Rock On"
Additional musicians
*
Matt Cameron
Matthew David Cameron (born November 28, 1962) is an American musician who is the drummer for the rock band Pearl Jam. He first gained fame as the drummer for Seattle-based rock band Soundgarden, which he joined in 1986. He appeared on each of ...
– drums on "Because You Are"
*
Bon Harris
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– additional squeaks and plonks on "Saturnine"
*
Rick Nielsen
Richard Alan Nielsen (born December 22, 1948) is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist, primary songwriter, and leader of the rock band Cheap Trick. He is well-known for his numerous custom-made guitars from Hamer Guitars, incl ...
– additional guitar on "Blissed and Gone"
*
Matt Walker – drums on "My Mistake"
Production
*
Kerry "Mango" Brown –
production
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on "Believe"
*
Danny Clinch
Danny Clinch (born 1964) is an American photographer and film director.
Biography
Born in Toms River, New Jersey, Clinch graduated from Toms River High School East in 1982. After attending Ocean County College, he attended the New England Scho ...
– photography
*Eric Ferris —
executive producer
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*Lynne Fischer – photography
*
Flood
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– production on "Lucky 13", "Here's to the Atom Bomb", and "Set the Ray to Jerry"
*Lisa Johnson – photography, cover photo
*
David LaChapelle
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– photography
*Michael Lavine – photography
*Roger Lian — digital editing
*
Melodie McDaniel
Melodie McDaniel (born 1967) is a Los Angeles, CA-based American still life, celebrity, and advertising photographer and film director.
Early life and background
Born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, McDaniel graduated in 1992 from Art Center Coll ...
– photography
*Jennifer Quinn – production manager
*Greg Sylvester –
art direction
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games.
It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the visi ...
*
Howie Weinberg
Howie Weinberg is an American audio mastering engineer with over 2,257 mastering credits, three TEC Awards, 21 Grammy Awards, two Juno Awards, and one Mercury Prize.
Career
Weinberg mastered Herbie Hancock's 1983 album ''Future Shock''. Other m ...
–
mastering
*
Yelena Yemchuk
Yelena Yemchuk ( Ukrainian: Єлена Ємчук, born April 22, 1970) is a Ukrainian photographer, painter and film director, best known for her work with The Smashing Pumpkins.
Early life
Born in Kyiv, Ukraine to an athlete and a teacher ...
– photography
References
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2001 greatest hits albums
Albums produced by Alan Moulder
Albums produced by Billy Corgan
Albums produced by Bjorn Thorsrud
Albums produced by Brad Wood
Albums produced by Butch Vig
Albums produced by Flood (producer)
Albums produced by James Iha
The Smashing Pumpkins compilation albums
Virgin Records compilation albums